Whats going on? Traffic up - sales DOWN! Where are the punters today? Anyone else having a cruddy day?
Do you think sometimes surfers get burnout like we do? They surf, but half heartedly??
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Whats going on? Traffic up - sales DOWN! Where are the punters today? Anyone else having a cruddy day?
Do you think sometimes surfers get burnout like we do? They surf, but half heartedly??
There are many millions of porn surfers out there. They can't all get bored at the same time. I chalk it up to CCbill's dominance of the market. When they scrub to hard, we all feel the pinch. Saturday was great but yesterday and today have sucked!Quote:
Originally Posted by marcjacob
And Mercury headed into retrograde on Saturday, so we can look forward to three weeks of weirdness. Many will think I'm a crack pot, but I have tracked this phenomena and it always fucks up sales. It's like the Net gets constipated, then suddenly, three weeks later there's a big whoosh.
Michael
What is a punter?Quote:
10-30-2006 02:29 PM
marcjacob Whats going on? Traffic up - sales DOWN! Where are the punters today? Anyone else having a cruddy day?
Bad yesterday and worse today. The astrological explanation is as good as any I guess...
AJ and I are TOTALLY with you on the retrograde. It nearly always messes up technical things and it definitely messes up communications. Quite a few large companies will not enter into new agreements or sign contracts of any sort during a retrograde simply because they have had terrible experiences with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dzinerbear
The astrological explanation is Mercury appears to be spinning backwards even though it isn't, and that translates to "things not being as they appear"... so if you enter into an agreement, it won't turn out the way you expected.
The few times that I've broken my own rule and entered into an agreement during a retrograde, it's never turned out positively. I'm not big into astrology either, but I'm a pragmatist, and if my own experiences plus those of some big companies warrant these sort of precautions, then we take them because there's a benefit to us to doing so.
Oh no! Here we go with the retrograde stuff again. Don't we do this every year? Lol. And of course, I still don't understand a lick of it.
Retrograde periods are generally good times to clean things up, so I'm working on cleaning up my back-ends areas and moving content and member's pages to one domain, getting rid of old banners, etc.
Michael
Sorry my englishness coming out there. A punter is someone who buys stuff usually crap actually lol, not criticising my sites there though hehe. Theres also the gambling punter who places bets or gambles.Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Rock
Some of our models could definitely benefit from cleaning up their back ends :)
XStr8guy, there are usually 4 Mercury retrogrades per year, and each one has some different significance or something based on what planet is moving through something or another. I don't begin to try to understand it all, I just read a couple of the astrologers interpretations about what the particular ones we're entering into mean and, to the extent it doesn't disrupt our business, do the best to stay clear of the stuff that's likely to cause problems.
Cheers mate lol, im just getting used to traffic and links and design, now i need to know astrology too!!Quote:
Originally Posted by gaybucks_chip
My best sales the past few weeks has been phone sex. Guess I need to buy some traffic ..